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C. H. WATERS.

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N o.308,54 0. Patented Nov. 25,1884.

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CHARLES H. IVATERS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMPOUND FAUCET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.308,540, dated November 25, 188

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. \VATERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Faucets; and'I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

It is the object of my invention to provide a faucet which, while it shall be capable of being used as an ordinary faucet, will take the place and perform the work of several faucets.

To this end my invention consists in a faucet constructed to permit the flow of a stream from a single pipe through a single outlet, or of several streams from converging pipes simultaneously through a common outlet, or to permit the flow to be entirely shut off.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my device arranged as a six-way cock, suitably connected with pipes for supplying hot and cold water to a bathtub having a showerbath attachment; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of my device arranged as a three-way cock;

Fig. 3, a vertical section of the same, and

Fig. at a sectional View of the device represented in Fig. 1.

I have chosen to explain the operation of my improved faucet in connection with a bathtub, for the reason that its application to this purpose admits most readily of an explanation of my invention, and not because it is the only or necessarily the most common of its applications, since, as will be hereinafter more eX- plicitly set forth, there are many other connections in which its use will afford desirable advantages.

A is a plug-valve preferably of the form of a cylindrical shell, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

13 is the stem for the plug-valve, surrounded with suitable packing, w, the whole being contained within the faucet-chamber E, having a cap, G, which is provided with an opening for the stem screwed upon it. to operate the valve, is attached in the usual manner to the stem. An opening, 22, is formed in one side of the shell, which constitutes the plug-valve A, and another opening, 1), in its opposite side.

D and D are ports formed in the side of the A handle, 0,

D, and the intervening wall and the opening '0, of greater dimensions than either of the ports D or D, coincides with the port it, which leads into the spout F.

Supposing the pipe which leads to the port D to be the cold-water pipe, and the one leading to the port D to be the hot-water pipe, then by turning the valve A by means of the handle 0 to bring the opening 12 in the valve coincident with the ports D and D, whereby the opening 1/ will coincide with the opening tleading into the spout, hot and cold water combined will be discharged into the bath tub. By turning the valve to cause the openo to register with a port, D or D, when in either case the opening 1), being wider than the spout-opening it, will cover the latter, either cold or hot water may be discharged through the spout F.

By providing other ports in the faucetchamber corresponding with the ports D and D, between the first-named and the spout F, and an opening directly opposite similar to the opening t, a six-way valve may be formed whereby cold or hot water, or both, may be supplied, alternately, to the bath-tub and the shower. To accomplish this, the tube a is caused .to connect both openings D, and the tube a both openings D, connection with the supply-pipe in each case being effected at a point between the two connected openings, and the pipe H leading to the shower being connected at the new opening t in the shell A, all as shown in Fig. 1, of the drawings.

To introduce cold and hot water combined into the shower, it is only necessary to turn the valve in one direction to cause the opening 1) to register with the new ports D and D, and in the opposite direction to effect the same position of the opening 1) with regard to one or the other of the said ports, whereby either cold or hot water may be introduced into the shower.

It will be seen on reference to Fig. 2 of the drawings, that the flow of cold and hot water through the opening 1 can be regulated to produce in the union of the two different degrees of temperature by turning the valve A in a manner to admit a greater or less stream through a port, D or D, according to whether alower or higher temperature is desired. To stop the flow, it is only necessary to turn the valve sufficiently far to remove the openings from coincidence with the ports and openings in the faucet-chamber. An index-finger, s, is attached to the handle 0 to extend over the center of the opening '0 in the valve,whereby the operator may know how far to turn the valve in order to direct the waterto the tub or to the shower. A dial, 1, having numbers upon it indicating degrees of temperature, and the words FHot and Gold at the proper places, may also be provided, the numbers within a certain range being marked over the discharge openings in order that when a certain temperature has been attained and ascertained by the use of a thermometer,

the index-finger pointing to the number indicating the degree of temperature ascertained to be'the desiredone will indicate the position of the valve at which the same temperature may be continued.

It is obvious that by forming the different ports and openings of proper relative dimensions, streams from any desired number of converging pipes leading into ports formed one for each pipe in the faucet-body may be discharged, two or more simultaneously, or each separately, through the same outlet; and it is equally obvious that the sets of ports D D in the shell E, and port t directly opposite each set, as clearly represented in Fig. 4 of the drawings, may be multiplied indefinitely,

the number being limited only by the dimensions of the openings and the size of the fancet-chamber.

As represented in Fig. 2 of the drawings,

my device may be employed to advantage for the purpose of drawing off any two difl'erent beverages of which a mixture is desired, and of which coffee or tea, and milk or water, and ale and porter are examples. It will also prove useful to brewers and distillers as a temperature-valve, and it presents peculiar advantages for use, in connection with the branch pipes for leading the water from the mains into houses as a check and waste cook.

The above instances are a few of the many uses to which my device may be applied with advantage.

hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A faucet chamber, E, having discharge openings tand sets of adjacent inlet-openings D D, the center of each discharge-opening being directly opposite the center of a set of adjacent inlet-openings, in combination with a plug, A, provided on one side with an opening, 1), equal in area to that of each dischargeopening t, and an opening, v, on the opposite side, equal in area to the adjacent openings D D and their separatingwalls combined, the centers of the said openings 12 and 1) being in line, substantially as described.

CHAS. H. \VATERS. In presence of- DOUGLAS DYRENFORTI-I, CHARLES C. LINTHIOUM. 

